Ezekiel 25

₁The Lord talked to me and He said: ₂‘Son of man, you must look towards the Ammonites and prophesy_against them. ₃Tell the people of Ammon: “You must listen to what the Lord God says. The Lord says: You were happy because the enemies made my temple impure when they destroyed the land_of_Israel and when the people of Judah became prisoners in Babylon. ₄That is why I will make the people of the East defeat you and let them come to live in your land. They will put up their tents among you and they will eat your fruit and drink your milk. ₅I will make the town of Rabbah a field where camels can lie down and eat and your land will become a place where sheep and goats can lie down. You will know that I am the Lord.”

₆Yes, the Lord God says: “You were so happy that you clapped your hands and stamped your feet when the land_of_Israel suffered, because you hate them. ₇That is why I will put out my hand against you and I will punish you. I will bring other nations to catch you and take you away as plunder. I will take you away from among the nations and I will make you disappear and I will destroy you and you will all die. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” ’

₈The Lord God says: ‘The people of Moab and Seir said that the people of Judah are the same as all the other nations. ₉That is why I will open the border of the land of Moab so that the enemies can come into the land. I will open for them the towns and cities on the border, the beautiful land around the towns of Beth-Jeshimoth, Baal-Meon and Kiriathaim. ₁₀I will give the lands of Moab and Ammon to the people of the East, and it will belong to them. No other nation will ever think of the Ammonites again. ₁₁I will punish the Moabites and they will know that I am the Lord.’

₁₂The Lord God says: ‘The people of Edom have done a lot of bad things to the people of Judah. The Edomites are guilty because they were angry with the people of Judah. ₁₃That is why I will put out my hand against the people of Edom to punish them. I will cause all the people and animals in their land to die. There will be only heaps of stones left over in the land, from the town of Teman to the town of Dedan. They will all die in war. ₁₄I will use my people, the Israelites, to punish the Edomites. I am angry and my people will do what I want them to do in the land of Edom. I want to show them that I am angry. The people of Edom will know that I am punishing them.’ This is what the Lord God said.

₁₅The Lord God says: ‘The Philistines have done bad things to other people. They always hated the other people and they wanted to kill them all. ₁₆That is why I will put out my hand against the Philistines to punish them. I will cause all the Kerethite people to die and all the people along the sea will disappear. ₁₇I am angry and I will punish them hard. They will know that I am the Lord when I punish them.’